The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Language Studies and Translation (BAHLT) programme aims to enable students to learn a range of language phenomena and translation skills, thus preparing them for career development as well as future academic ventures. This major offers a variety of courses designed to expand students’ intellectual horizons on top of enhancing their language abilities that are needed for cross-cultural communication to meet the modern needs of globalisation.
This BAHLT programme consists of a wide variety of language studies and translation courses. These courses range from those that incorporate various language systems of English such as sound, word, grammar, meaning and usage to others that deal with the cultural dimension of translation. There are also practical translation courses that address the differences between the English and Chinese languages and the handling of translated texts in specialized areas, including law, business, public administration and media. The programme intends to help students achieve a level of proficiency that will enable them to be linguistically and analytically equipped to be language professionals and translators.
